Re: collect2 outputs help to stderr

[Simon Howard]

Ok, my mistake.  The help page says "Report bugs to address@hidden".


On 11 Oct 2004 14:39:49 -0400, Ian Lance Taylor <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> Simon Howard <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The collect2 program, part of ld, gives the output from its --help
> > option to stderr rather than stdout.  This makes it impossible to type
> > "collect2 | more" to display the help a page at a time.  It also
> > contravenes the GNU coding standards which specify that output should
> > be to stdout:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces
> >
> > --help
> >     This option should output brief documentation for how to invoke
> > the program, on standard output, then exit successfully.
> >
> > This is with GNU ld version 2.15
> 
> The collect2 program is not part of ld.  It is part of gcc.  ld --help
> correctly reports to stdout.
> 
> collect2 is a wrapper program provided by gcc which invokes ld.  From
> a brief glance, it looks to me like collect2 gathers stdout and stderr
> into one stream, and then dumps that stream on stderr while demangling
> any symbols.
> 
> Anyhow, this bug needs to be fixed by the gcc project, not the
> binutils project.
> 
> Ian
> 


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